armed reconnaissance

armed reconnaissance

An air mission flown to locate and attack enemy material, personnel, and facilities (i.e., targets of opportunity) in an assigned general area or along an assigned route and not for the purpose of attacking specifically briefed targets. Also known as search and strike missions. Strike aircraft are armed and carry out reconnaissance of a designated area and engage any targets observed with a view to destroy them.

Like Talon, the DAGR uses a nose-mounted GC module, allowing both target lock-on before launch and target lock-on after launch, and has been fired successfully from the US Army's AH64D, and Boeing's A/MH-6X and AH-6I armed reconnaissance helicopters.

The Sun quoted British Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox, as saying: "British Tornado GR4 Aircraft, on armed reconnaissance missions over Libya, last night took part in a co-ordinated missile strike against units of Colonel Gaddafi's Libyan Military in support of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.

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